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Google Cloud Shut Down This Guy's Business — But Now He's a Fan for Life
On Monday, Fred Trotter, CEO of a healthcare startup called DocGraph, came into work only to discover that his cloud computing provider, Google, had effectively shut down his company, sending him and his team into a panic. DocGraph, through its sister company, CareSet, sells Medicare data and analysis to help improve patient care and track the effectiveness of drugs. It not only stores its data with Google, but also relies on Google's machine learning service, Tensorflow, to help it with the analysis...
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Google Cloud Storage, Zmanda Connect for New Service
Zmanda provides its flagship network backup suite, Amanda Enterprise, as the connecting software, and Google chips in with its cloud storage capacity. Read More »
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Google Code-In Contest For High School Students Starts This November
Today marks the launch of the third Google Code-in, an international contest introducing 13-17 year old pre-university students to the world of open source software development. The goal of the contest is to give students the opportunity to explore the many types of projects and tasks involved in open source software development... Read More »
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Google Cookies Are Pretty Mundane. So Why Do Spy Agencies Want Them?
Google cookies used by the NSA aren't much different from typical Web cookies, but when paired with other info, they can help home in on a particular user Read More »
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Google Cracks Open Access To Its Compute Cloud — A Little Bit
Getting into Google Compute Engine isn’t impossible, but it isn’t super easy either. You sign up and wait. Now Google is opening the door to new users willing to pay for support. Read More »
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Google Gives $300,000 To Osu Open Source Lab
Google has made a $300,000 donation to the Oregon State University Open Source Lab, increasing its cumulative support of academia's premiere open source development and hosting operation to nearly $1.9 million. The new funds will continue Google’s support of the lab’s effort to provide hosting services used by many of today’s most recognized open source projects and communities. Read More »
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Google Glass And Other Devices Presenting New Crop Of Privacy Risks
Scarcely a day passes when we don’t hear about some new electronic gadget designed to make our lives more productive, convenient, healthy, or entertaining. Read More »
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Google Glass Gets Healthy Push
Royal Philips and Accenture announced Thursday they will partner to study the creation of a proof-of-concept demonstration that uses a Google Glass™ head-mounted display for researching ways to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of performing surgical procedures. Read More »
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Google Glass Should Be Banned For Privacy Reasons Say One In Five UK Residents, Per New Survey
Google Glass isn’t even a product released for public consumption yet and already people are up in arms about its effect on personal privacy. Read More »
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Google Glass Startup Augmedix Scores $23 Million from McKesson Ventures, Others
Augmedix, which has harnessed Google Glass technology to develop tools to improve physician workflow and productivity, has secured a $23 million round of funding from new investors McKesson Ventures, OrbiMed and others. The main Augmedix product is remote scribe technology, enabled by Google Glass, that aims to help physicians manage the voluminous charting and documentation required, ideally freeing them to see more patients, with a better patient relationship...
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Google Joins PwC in Bid to Modernize DOD’s EHR Infrastructure
Google, Inc. will be joining PricewaterhouseCooper (PwC) and its partners in a bid to win the favor of the Pentagon as it seeks to modernize its EHR infrastructure. The PwC team, which also includes DSS, MedSphere, and General Dynamics Technology, is facing stiff competition from its rivals, but hopes its open-source offering will become even more attractive to the Department of Defense with the backing of the tech giant’s significant resources and experience. Read More »
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Google Joins the Open Source Cloud Foundry Foundation
Google is joining the Cloud Foundry Foundation as a Gold member. To be fair, this doesn’t necessarily come as a major surprise, especially given that Google recently hired the foundation’s former CEO Sam Ramji. Other Cloud Foundry Gold-level members include Accenture, Allstate, CenturyLink, Huawai, Phillips and Verizon. It’s worth noting that Google — unlike Cisco, IBM, SAP and others — didn’t opt for the highest level of sponsorship (platinum), though...
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Google Just Granted Itself The Right To Use Your Name And Photo In Its Online Ads
Google just got a tad creepier. Thanks to tweaks made to its terms of service today, Google will be able to use its users’ names and photos in select advertising beginning next month (November 11). Read More »
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Google launches Project Bloks, a New Open Hardware Platform for Teaching Kids to Code
Google today announced Project Bloks, a new open hardware platform that allows developers, designers and educators to build physical programming experiences that can help kids (5+) learn to code. While Google worked together with design firm IDEO to build a reference kit, the idea here is to provide a platform that others can use to build their own devices. Google’s team provides the basics of the platform, but the team tells me that it doesn’t currently plan to build its own retail version...
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Google Logic: Why Google Does The Things It Does
“What does Google want?” A favorite pastime among people who watch the tech industry is trying to figure out why Google does things. [...] But the topic also comes up regularly in conversations with my Silicon Valley friends. Read More »
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